GREAT STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS
SELECTED “FIRST-GENERATION” STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS
ANDRE KERTESZ (1894-1985) Hungarian;
first great street photographer: “Whatever we have done, Kertész did first.” –Henri Cartier-Bresson
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ROBERT DOISNEAU (1912-1994) French;
traveled little; Paris based; square format for earlier work; wit & humor
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004) French; world traveler; photojournalist; perhaps the best known photographer in the world, the most admired and imitated by other photographers; obsessed with geometry and timing
WILLY RONIS (1910-2009) French
EDOUARD BOUBAT (1923-1999) French
VIVIAN MAIER (1926-2009) American
HELEN LEVITT (1930-2009) American
FIRST-GENERATION STYLE ELEMENTS
- “cool distance” from subjects [“invisible” photographer]
- “undeniable empathy” with subjects
- “classical sense of composition”
- “implied narrative”
- “anecdotal detail”
–Ferguson, Russell. “Open City: Possibilities of the Street”, in Open City: Street Photography Since 1950. Oxford: Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 2001, 9-21.
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SELECTED “SECOND-GENERATION” STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS
WILLIAM KLEIN (1928- ) American
ROBERT FRANK (1924- ) Swiss
GARY WINOGRAND (1928-1984) American
LEE FRIEDLANDER (1934- ) American
SECOND-GENERATION STYLE ELEMENTS
- closer to subject; wide-angle lens; “in-your-face” presence (especially William Klein)
- imbalanced, chaotic composition
- tilted framing (blind shooting–especially Gary Winogrand)
- cluttered, multi-layered, sometimes obstructed views (especially Lee Friedlander)
- darker themes; less empathy; more satire
Larry E. Fink, Hardin-Simmons University